9/29/07
Neo-secularism
Secularism is the best of possible ways for global justice. Only independent, impatial and dogma-less secular justice makes multicultural fairness realizeable. It should develop along with the best possible contemporary secular rationality. "Global" here refers to a complex world order links by international trades and communications. Unless there is clear harm to their very existence or abuse, those outside the domain should be left alone in their best natural state. Our so called "civilization" tends to be aggressive and already committed cultural genocides. On the other hand, as minimal as it should be, there is an urgency to formulate a more efficient, secular frame of reference, "global" value and enforcing system that is anti-trust. As of its very anti-trust essense, those practice or provide one-sided supports of (neo/quasi)fascist, non-secular politics (in its narrow sense), other monopolistic systems or violation of the global values shall be treated as given up their rights to judge, to enforce and to be treated equally. "Justice must be seen to be done." Therefore, the judiciary and enforcement rights shall be in the hands of consented developed free-worlds with a quorum that can ensure efficacy.
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While secularism supports freedom of belief, this does not mean freedom of spreading, especially to dying culture.
Secularism nowaday is not about the dualism of religion vs. science. It is mainly about rational justice for multicultures.
The subject of justice has to be social, rational and may or may not be contractual. Justice is not something self-righteous or for moral competition. It arises out of need. We are all heirs of primeval cultures. They may not be as bad as we think or as in Hobbesian philosophy. Otherwise, we would've been extinct long ago. Accidents and crimes happened, they have their own ways of dealing with. When our metaphysical justice is killing off minority cultures, its "global" part should be properly restricted.
Majoritarianism can make the neofascist China rule the world. Minoritarianism may push a dying culture into the tomb. Neither of them shall be the zeitgeist.
Pragmatically speaking, secular philanthropic works should be the major concern for today's religious institutions.
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